Four bolts were missing from a door panel that blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight last month while the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane was flying over Oregon, according to a preliminary report from the ...

Boeing will add further quality inspections for the 737 MAX after a mid-air blowout of a cabin panel in an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 earlier this month, the head of its commercial airplanes division said ...

Soucie said the design of the door plug on the Max 9 may provide some advantages, such as making the plane more readily accessible for maintenance. Robert Ditchey, an aviation consultant, agreed that ...

When a door panel plug removed itself from a Boeing 737 MAX 9 on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on January 5, the blame was initially placed on Spirit AeroSystems — Boeing's supplier. However, according ...

Four bolts meant to hold the Boeing 737 Max 9 door plug in place were missing last month when part of a plane blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight, the National Transportation Safety Board found in a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Several weeks have passed since a door plug blew out of Alaska Airlines flight 1282, but new reporting from the New York Times indicates that the airline chose to keep the ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 6 story has been corrected to fix pronoun for Delgado to 'she' in paragraph 23) Sign up here. The National Transportation Safety Board and Boeing said they ...

Boeing finds itself in hot water over its 737 MAX aircraft once again after an Alaska Airlines flight experienced rapid depressurization on Friday, leading the FAA to ground 737 MAX 9 airplanes.

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said Tuesday that the heroic actions of the crew aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282 ensured everyone survived the terrifying incident last ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A “whistling sound” was heard on a previous flight of the Boeing 737 Max 9 whose door plug blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, an attorney representing ...

CNN — (CNN) — In the aftermath of last week’s Alaska Airlines in-flight emergency, some aviation experts are questioning the structural design of the section of the Boeing 737 Max 9 that blew off the ...